Ideas sometimes need preconditions to be fulfilled for innovation to happen. For example, social media platforms would not have happened without the invention of the Internet. However, such preconditioned-driven innovation has a long history. Galileo, the Renaissance astronomer (1564-1642), for instance, used his skills as a great lens-maker to build a high-powered telescope which in turned proved his theory of a heliocentric universe. In this sense, innovation has components of experimental design or research whereby gathering, combining or exploring known ideas or precedents help generate new ideas. That is, designers, through analysing and interpreting historical and contemporary innovations identify which ideas have been successful and which haven't which in turn may lead to future innovations.
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